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eclecticsynergy
Ambassador of Electric Synergy
Lemmy's stacks actually attended his funeral!
My first amp was a Heathkit like this one; my Dad and I built it together when I was ten.
Then I traded up to a Coral Stentor 100 (built by Danelectro) which had a 3x15" cabinet like the old Kustom bass amps.
To this day I've been unable to find a pic of that model cabinet but here's what the head looked like:
I've had some other cool ones over the years. Used to have one of these, the horn could literally make your ears itch:
I've had a couple of Olivers, too. Kinda wish I'd kept them. The B120 sounded great, five tone knobs and a CTS 15"
And the Powerflex was way cool. The head was motorized and it would rise up out of the top when you pressed a switch. Green pexiglass panel was backlit. Mine had two Altec 15"s in it.
Right now I have a pair of these '63 Silvertone 1482 combo amps:
and a '55 Magnavox 113 with the coolest vibrato ever.
Plus a couple of blackface Fenders: a '64 Bassman that Billy Zoom rebuilt to blonde 6G6A specs using the original iron, and a '65 Bandmaster that's all original except that one of the speakers has been replaced with a Redcoat Wizard. Here's the Bandmaster at lower left; Bassman wasn't in this pic.
cdawg22
Well-Known Member
I think it is DADGAD. or I may just be reading it opposite of you. I read strings from thick to thin.
I thought this was it as well. Just googled it. From thick to thin it looks like open D goes D,A,D,F#,A,D.
Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
You had an Oliver amp?
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
One of my friends has an Oliver. When he was playing bass with me, that was his "go-to" amp. Great sounding amp.
Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
Olivers are pretty cool, it's like ahead of it's time.
It's like, ahead of any time.
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
Bruce was telling me that Oliver hunts through all the forums trying to buy any of his old amps he can find. I guess he wasn't happy with certain circuits, and would rewire, then resell them.
Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
That's fkin funny. This guy is still around? He would need to be pretty old... I remember those amps from when I was a teenager.
cdawg22
Well-Known Member
Learn somethin' new everyday.
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
That was a little over ten years ago that we were playing together. He moved out to Denver in 2011, so who knows if Oliver is still alive and kicking.